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Learning Event Completeness for Weakly Supervised Video Anomaly Detection

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2025-06-17 v1

Abstract

Weakly supervised video anomaly detection (WS-VAD) is tasked with pinpointing temporal intervals containing anomalous events within untrimmed videos, utilizing only video-level annotations. However, a significant challenge arises due to the absence of dense frame-level annotations, often leading to incomplete localization in existing WS-VAD methods. To address this issue, we present a novel LEC-VAD, Learning Event Completeness for Weakly Supervised Video Anomaly Detection, which features a dual structure designed to encode both category-aware and category-agnostic semantics between vision and language. Within LEC-VAD, we devise semantic regularities that leverage an anomaly-aware Gaussian mixture to learn precise event boundaries, thereby yielding more complete event instances. Besides, we develop a novel memory bank-based prototype learning mechanism to enrich concise text descriptions associated with anomaly-event categories. This innovation bolsters the text's expressiveness, which is crucial for advancing WS-VAD. Our LEC-VAD demonstrates remarkable advancements over the current state-of-the-art methods on two benchmark datasets XD-Violence and UCF-Crime.

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@article{arxiv.2506.13095,
  title  = {Learning Event Completeness for Weakly Supervised Video Anomaly Detection},
  author = {Yu Wang and Shiwei Chen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.13095},
  year   = {2025}
}

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Accepted by ICML

R2 v1 2026-07-01T03:18:54.767Z